A child’s constant convulsions in sleep may be caused by encephalitis, epilepsy, and excessive mental stress.
1. Encephalitis is an acute disease caused by viral, bacterial, parasitic and other pathogenic infections. Usually, there may be high fever, headache, nausea, vomiting, hyperthermia, convulsions and even coma during the seizure, etc. It is recommended that parents bring their children to the hospital for treatment in time.
2. Epilepsy is a chronic disease of the nervous system, a temporary disorder caused by abnormal discharges of neurons in the brain, easy to recur, high incidence, and hereditary, the onset of which can be characterized by a sudden fall to the ground, convulsions, head tilting back, clenched teeth, and bruised lips, and is often difficult to self-cure.
3. Sometimes some mental stimulation can also induce nocturnal convulsions in children, such as family, learning and other reasons or emotional neglect, etc., these factors will cause the child to produce ambivalence, so that the external manifestations of the symptoms of convulsions.
The child’s sleep twitching may also be related to other causes, need to actively consult the doctor, follow the doctor’s advice and reasonable treatment.